{"id":191920,"date":"2009-06-06T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/06\/f136-engine-will-harm-jsf-program\/"},"modified":"2009-06-06T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T10:24:00","slug":"f136-engine-will-harm-jsf-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/06\/f136-engine-will-harm-jsf-program\/","title":{"rendered":"F136 Engine Will Harm JSF Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A47fc1b13-7dd8-4fd7-9c07-b8a42d47fed4\">JSF program office chief General David Heinz<\/a>, who notes that it will drain resources away from low rate production, but just a few days later, he says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/03\/327305\/f-35-chief-endorses-competition-for-engines-and-radars.html\">he favors a second source engine <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> radar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;I believe that part of the debate that has to occur &#8212; and is occurring &#8211; is, is there an operational risk that we are accepting by having just a single engine manufacturer?&#8221; Heinz asked. &#8220;I simply think that we focus too much of the discussion about the cost and not the operational risk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> story is from June 1, the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, so what changed in 24 hours?<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that he someone talked to him about industrial base issues, or perhaps someone talked to him about not telling Congress what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Any insights would be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says JSF program office chief General David Heinz, who notes that it will drain resources away from low rate production, but just a few days later, he says that he favors a second source engine and radar: &#8220;I believe that part of the debate that has to occur &#8212; and is occurring &#8211; is, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}